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Energy Economization using Multimedia Cloud
Computing
1
Swati Tiwari,
2
Praveen Sen

1
Department Of Embedded System and Computing, Rashtrasant Tukdoji Maharaj Nagpur University,
Nagpur, India

2
Department Of Information Technology, Rashtrasant Tukdoji Maharaj Nagpur University,
Nagpur, India


Abstract - With the wide range of development of smart-
phones there is increasing demand in the consumption of the
smart-phones. Due the advanced features, that the smart-phone
possesses the consumption of battery increases. This paper
focuses on the existing development and research in the field
of saving the energy of smart-phones.

Keywords - Smartphone, offload, cloud, energy.

1. Introduction

Smart-phones are becoming more & more popular
because of their unique design, lightweight & compact
size. Their various features such as many useful
applications like multimedia applications, games etc
.and ease to carry from one place to another have added
to their popularity. But these new features have created a
new set of problems like limited battery capacity,
processing capacity and memory capacity. Even after a
lot of research & development done in recent times
limited battery size is one of the major problems that has
not been solved satisfactorily. In complete contrast
development in other smart-phone applications like
multimedia, games, GPS, etc .have occurred in leaps &
bounds. For example, classic games like Tetris, requires
less memory storage & processing capacity to operate.
Due to this battery usage was less. In complete contrast
recent games are very much resource intensive in terms
of processing and data transfer rates, this causes a huge
drain on batteries of smart-phones.

Let us consider a scenario where a customer purchases a
smart-phone which runs an application consuming more
processing power such as an addicting game & starts
playing that game on his smart-phone. After a few
minutes when the events in this game have taken an
interesting turn and his Smartphone stops running the
game because of low battery. This scenario is very
frustrating for the customer.

But you would say that this example is only of games.
Not everyone uses their mobile for playing games. So
lets consider another scenario which would



relate to the gravity of the situation. Consider an
engineer working on a site and he is using smart-phone
to make a video call to his boss. They are discussing
about the implementation of a certain task in his project
undertaking. Now suddenly he finds that his smart-
phone is out of battery power. This situation is not only
frustrating but could also cause loss and damage to the
customer.

1.1 Solutions

1. Increase battery capacity With the development of
smart-phones, the problem the users face is the limited
battery capacity. Research is going on to increase the
battery capacity of smart-phone. But results are not very
fruitful. Hence we cannot rely on increasing battery
capacity for our power problem.

2. Increase the number of batteries. Smart-phones are
light weight and attractive but to increase the battery
capacity we can increase the number of batteries
attached in the smart-phones which will make the phone
bulky in the mere future. Hence, no one would buy it. So
this solution is also not a viable solution.

3. Not running apps which use more power Using a
smart-phone means utilizing the facilities available
therein, which in turn consumes more battery. The
solution to this problem is to running only those apps
which will consume less power but it kills the purpose of
the using the smart phone.

4. Offload it to a cloud The best solution is to offload
heavy tasks on the cloud. Offloading large computation
to the cloud may save the battery usage. The solution to
this problem is increasing the battery capacity. But as
stated earlier battery capacity can only be improved to a
certain extent. Here Cloud computing can come in
handy. Cloud Computing can be used in multimedia
operations to save energy.




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2. Literature survey

During the literature survey, it was found that cloud
computing plays an important role in reducing battery
consumption of smart-phones and to backup users data.

Cloud computing is a model for enabling ubiquitous,
convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool
of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks,
servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be
rapidly provisioned and released with minimal
management effort or service provider interaction.

Many people have focused to build frameworks to
offload large computation on the cloud. Mobile
computation offloading involves communication in
between the real mobile device and the cloud. For
mobile computation offloading to work we have to run
same application on smart-phone as well as on the cloud.
But the application is not present on the cloud, so we
have to offload or copy the application on the cloud.
This copy or Clone of the application that is used for
offloading is referred as off-clone


Figure 1 Offclone



Figure 1 Flow Chart for working of Offclone
The clone used to backup users data is referred as back-
clone.

Figure 2 Backclone

3. Proposed Approach

If we take a look around we see that there are many
types of smart-phone users. Basically we are classifying
the users on the basis of the types of software which
they mostly use.

i) Video users
ii) Game users
iii) Audio Users
iv) Internet users
v) Regular users. (SMS audio call)

Most of the literature papers deals with a user which is
all of the above i.e. it is assumed that the user uses all
the applications (such as listening to music, surfing net,
chatting, watching videos, etc) regularly and in equal
proportions. But usually that is not the case. A person
can listen to music for 1 hour and send SMS in 5
minutes only. What we are trying to do is to focus on a
particular type of user and see whether performing
computation on the cloud saves smart-phone energy for
that particular user.

In our approach, we would be performing heavy cloud
operations on the device and also on the cloud, then
comparing the power efficiency of the outputs on the
device and that on the clouds. For that it is divided into
following four modules.

1. Development of Local and Cloud database
2. Access of cloud database rigorously and checking the
energy consumption
3. Access of local database rigorously and checking the
energy consumption
4. Comparing the energy consumed by cloud and that by
our local devices
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Figure 3 Flowchart for methodology

4. Conclusion

This paper reviews the existing development and
research in the field of saving the energy of smart-
phones. Offloading heavy tasks on the cloud may save
the energy of smart-phone. Offloading heavy tasks on
the cloud, allows large computation to be performed on
the cloud, saving smart-phone energy as the
computations are not performed on the real device. This
paper further proposes the line of action which could
lead to the solution of the problem of heavy battery
consumption by the smart-phones.




















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